Frost, RobertHARD NOT TO BE KING [SIGNED] New York: House of Books, Ltd, 1951. Limited First Edition, #105/300. thin 8vo., unpaginated; VG-; spine sun-faded blue cloth to tan, boards blue cloth, front board with gilt lettering; with unprinted tissue dust jacket, some tears, including chunk missing to lower fore corner of front board; remnants of a bookplate on ffep, a large amount torn off, page still intact; of a limited first edition of 300 copies, this is number 105 SIGNED by the author; very slight age-toning to pages; AD; shelved case 0. Dupont.

Palmer, Stuart (1905-1968) inscribedNipped in the Bud, A Miss Withers Mystery New York: The M S Mill Company and William Morrow Company, 1951 283+[i ad] pages. Small octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth boards with red lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed by author and early "Baker Street Irregular" For P M stone and Ned Guymon on the dedication page whom the book was dedicated by the author. first edition.In comedy, timing is everything. If Tony Fagan were a better comic, perhaps he would've known when to keep his mouth shut. After weeks of jokes at the expense of businessman Winston H. "Junior" Gault, the sponsor of Fagan's television show, Fagan is found with his head bashed in, and Gault is charged with the murder. The case seems open and shut, but Gault has the money to buy himself an acquittal. The only witness against him is Ina Kell--a small-town dreamer who came to New York to find fame--and she's disappeared. It's up to Hildegarde Withers, a retired schoolteacher with expertise in solving crime, to find the vanished witness. Ina may have come to New York seeking excitement, but she didn't deserve to get caught in the line of fire.The Baker Street Irregulars (BSI) is an international literary society formed to promote the study and enjoyment of the stories of Sherlock Holmes. Although formal membership is limited, The Baker Street Irregulars publishes the widely-read Baker Street Journal, the society's publication of Sherlockian scholarship. The BSI has sponsored Sherlockian events open to the public throughout the United States and created a book division which has 40 separate titles to date, primarily of Sherlockian scholarship, sold worldwide. Further, the BSI has established a public archive at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, collecting correspondence and other Irregular publications, and memorabilia, relating to the history of the BSI. This was all achieved by scores of dedicated and talented volunteers who, thankfully, do not take themselves too seriously.Condition:Inscribed and signed by the author on front free flyleaf to Early Baker Street Irregular P M Stone with a whimsical drawing of a penguin. Inscribed by Ned Guymon, also a "Baker Street Irregular, on the dedication page. Spine ends lightly rubbed with bump to heal and heal corners. Jacket slightly chipped at head and heal else a very good copy in like jacket.

Ray BradburyThe Illustrated Man New York: Doubleday. New York, Doubleday, 1951. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A lovely copy. One of Bradbury's best-known works and a highlight of Bradbury and Science Fiction collecting. The present copy signed by Bradbury without inscription, with the date "Oct. 18, 1980." In the NPR's top 100 books. Some light wear to the jacket corners and spine tips but unfaded. Price-clipped and with a little bumping to the spine tips. A remarkably nice copy, better than usually found. Cover art by Stanley Butchkes [6495, Hyraxia Books]. . Fine. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1951.

POUND, Ezra (trans )Confucian Analects. New York: Square $ Series,, 1951. Reprinted by permission of the Hudson Review 439 West Street, New York 14, N.Y. Octavo. Original grey paper wrappers with yapp edges, titles in black to spine and front cover, publisher's ads in black to rear cover. With the original wraparound band printed in red laid in. Faint fading to spine and edge of wrappers, slight creasing to extremities; a very good copy. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Matthew Persion, from E Pound, April 1955". Persion was Pound's dentist during his incarceration at St Elizabeth's mental hospital, Washington DC, where Pound was confined from 1945 until 1958 after he was found unfit to plead in his trial for treason. Accompanying this work is a collection of correspondence between Pound and Persion sent by Pound upon his return to Italy, with his wife Dorothy Shakespear, three months after he was released from St Elizabeth's. These include: a postcard with a portrait of Pound inscribed, "Hotel Italia Rapallo. Pleasant evening & greetings, Dr M M Persion, 15 May, E.P.", addressed on the reverse, "Dr. M. Persion, 3504, Silver Hill Rd, Silver Hill MD. U.S.A." with two franked postage stamps; a second postcard typed by Pound to Persion, "in this corner one burg. Dear MMP, greets for thanksgiving. shd/ be glad to have report on state of the nation if it has got one. best to Madame" postal stamp from Brunnenburg, possibly dated 14 August 1958; an envelope with "Pound 8 Rachewiltz, Schloss Brunnenburg, Tirolo, Merano, Italy" written in Pound's hand on a used envelope sent to Persion from the office of the Borough Clerk of Highland Park, New Jersey. Also included is a newspaper clipping reporting that Pound had returned to Italy and taken up writing once more. Upon returning to Italy Pound lived with his daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz, and her family in their castle, Schloss Brunnenburg, where he did indeed return to writing, completing the final six of his Cantos. This collection of Confucian Analects was first published in the Hudson Review in 1950, and is uncommon signed, with no other copies traced at auction.

POUND, Ezra (trans.)Confucian Analects. Reprinted by permission of the Hudson Review 439 West Street, New York 14, N.Y. New York: Square $ Series, 1951 - Octavo. Original grey paper wrappers with yapp edges, titles in black to spine and front cover, publisher's ads in black to rear cover. With the original wraparound band printed in red laid in. Faint fading to spine and edge of wrappers, slight creasing to extremities; a very good copy. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Matthew Persion, from E Pound, April 1955". Persion was Pound's dentist during his incarceration at St Elizabeth's mental hospital, Washington DC, where Pound was confined from 1945 until 1958 after he was found unfit to plead in his trial for treason. Accompanying this work is a collection of correspondence between Pound and Persion sent by Pound upon his return to Italy, with his wife Dorothy Shakespear, three months after he was released from St Elizabeth's. These include: a postcard with a portrait of Pound inscribed, "Hotel Italia Rapallo. Pleasant evening & greetings, Dr M M Persion, 15 May, E.P.", addressed on the reverse, "Dr. M. Persion, 3504, Silver Hill Rd, Silver Hill MD. U.S.A." with two franked postage stamps; a second postcard typed by Pound to Persion, "in this corner one burg. Dear MMP, greets for thanksgiving. shd/ be glad to have report on state of the nation if it has got one. best to Madame" postal stamp from Brunnenburg, possibly dated 14 August 1958; an envelope with "Pound 8 Rachewiltz, Schloss Brunnenburg, Tirolo, Merano, Italy" written in Pound's hand on a used envelope sent to Persion from the office of the Borough Clerk of Highland Park, New Jersey. Also included is a newspaper clipping reporting that Pound had returned to Italy and taken up writing once more. Upon returning to Italy Pound lived with his daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz, and her family in their castle, Schloss Brunnenburg, where he did indeed return to writing, completing the final six of his Cantos. This collection of Confucian Analects was first published in the Hudson Review in 1950, and is uncommon signed, with no other copies traced at auction. Gallup A65. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy]

HENRY WILLIAMSONA Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Complete in fifteen volumes comprising 'The Dark Lantern', 'Donkey Boy', 'Young Phillip Maddison', 'How Dear is Life', 'A Fox Under my Cloak', 'The Golden Virgin', 'Love and the Loveless', 'A Test to Destruction', 'The Inn Macdonald, London 1951-1969. A first edition set of Williamson's celebrated semi-autobiographical sequence of fifteen novels which explore the fortunes of one family during the first half of the twentieth century. 8vo. Several top edges lightly dust marked, with just a hint of light partial browning to two or three free endpapers. Former owner name and date neatly inked to the front free endpaper of each volume, in each instance accompanied by a small area of surface abrasion (possibly a result of somebody trying to obscure this signature), but the impact is extremely minor. One volume ('The Gale of the World') also contains a tiny dealer plate to the front pastedown. An extremely crisp set in the original James Broom-Lynne-designed pictorial dust wrappers, none of which have been price-clipped. A number exhibit a little minor rubbing and chafing to the spine ends, and some occasional minor dust soiling to the predominantly white rear panels. The publisher's red spine panel colouring to 'Love and the Loveless' is faded as is so often the case although this example much less so that is customary. 'The Golden Virgin' is complete with the uncommon 'Daily Mail Book of the Month' wraparound band. The only dust wrapper that is graded below very good is 'Donkey Boy' which exhibits some taped reinforcement and restoration. A very nice example of an increasingly scarce set - a Burgess Ninety-Nine.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita In Your Garden; [together with:] In Your Garden Again; [and:] More for Your Garden; [and:] Even More for Your Garden. London: Michael Joseph,, 1951. 4 works, octavo. In Your Garden: original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge green; In Your Garden Again: original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge green; More for Your Garden: original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge red; Even More for Your Garden: original blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jackets. Photographic frontispieces, 28 photographic plates. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown of In Your Garden, ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers of In Your Garden and In Your Garden Again. Spine ends faded, pale spotting to edges of text blocks, 50 mm closed tear to p. 127 of Even More for Your Garden. Excellent copies in the slightly toned jackets, slight loss to ends of spine panels. First editions, first impressions, of the complete set of Sackville-West's collections of "her highly successful gardening columns" (ODNB). All but two essays originally published in the Observer between 1950 and 1957.

Wyndham, JohnThe Day of the Triffids London: Michael Joseph, 1951. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st ed. Green cloth with silver lettering to spine in a pictorial dw. Classic of British science fiction. Minor shelf wear to dw, primarily to head of spine and corners. Refer to pictures for condition and please contact for any further details. A lovely volume.

(BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme)Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante; Ouvrage Theorique, Historique et a l'Ordre du Jour, Dedie aux Gastronomes Parisiens Paris: Flammarion, 1951. Limited. unbound. Andre Jacquemin. Orne de Pointes Seches Originales par Andre Jacquemin, dans une Typographie de Pierre Bouchet. Many illustrations, mostly in the text. 2 volumes. Folio, loose as issued in original printed paper wrappers; protected in board folders and slipcases; (uncut, slipcases repaired). Paris: Flammarion, 1951. A very fine copy in very good inner sleeves and good outer boxes. Internally a fine copy. Number 60 of 200 copies. Author was a deputy to the national assembly and later became a judge of the Court of Cassation, (the highest French court of appeal). This is his most famous work. In addition he wrote on a variety of subjects including judicial theory, political economy, and duelling.

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966)Randall and The River of Time London; Michael Joseph. 1951. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine, in unclipped dustwrapper. Some light edgewear and scuffing, a hint of toning to spine panel. Minor spotting to page edges. Internally clean. Signed ex-libris from the Forester and Troughton-Smith Family Archive to front pastedown. Inscribed by Forester to his nephew Stephen to front flyleaf: "To Stephen/ from his uncle with/ best wishes/ C. S. Forester" Housed in a tailor made blue morocco, felt lined clamshell box. The name on C. S. Forester's birth certificate was Cecil Louis Troughton Smith. He later adopted the pen name Cecil Scott Forester. He became known as C. S. Forester in his private as well as professional life. Brought up in England, much of Forester's writing life was spent in California, a sufferer from arteriosclerosis and a partial invalid, sadly ironic for a man who had created one of the most distinctive and popular action heroes in the form of Horatio Hornblower. Forester married his second wife Dorothy, in 1947 and they lived in California until Forester's death in 1966. Having remained close to Forester's nephew; Mr. Stephen Troughton-Smith, who had a close relationship with his uncle, Dorothy eventually ended up living with Stephen and his family in Sussex after she became too frail to cope on her own. After her death in 1998 her Forester related books, correspondance and ephemera were bequeathed to Stephen Troughton-Smith who combined them with his own material to form the Forester Troughton Smith family archive. After his death the archive arrived in auction. Toovey's Auctioneers 21/02/2012.

Brickhill, PaulThe Great Escape London: Faber and Faber, 1951. A first edition, first printing published by Faber in 1951. A very good/near fine book with one neat gift inscription to the front endpage. Some light spotting to the page edges. In a very good+ unclipped wrapper with a small neat internal repair. Fresh and clean to the rear panel. A little light chipping to the spine top. The basis for the infamous film and dedicated 'To the fifty...'.

Wouk, HermanThe Caine Mutiny Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951. First edition of Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original blue cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by Herman Wouk on the title page. Very good in a very good second issue dust jacket with "City Boy" on the rare panel. Jacket painting by John Hull. The Caine Mutiny was published in March, 1951 and word of mouth quickly spread and a second printing was issued in April 1951, and four more printings in June alone. By September 1951, The Caine Mutiny had become the best-selling novel in the country. The book remained on the best-seller list for two and a half years, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1952. The Caine Mutiny was both a Broadway play and a Hollywood film starring Humphrey Bogart in an unforgettable performance as Captain Queeg.

KAUFFER, E. McKnight.) FAULKNER, William.Requiem for a Nun. New York: Random House, [1951] - Octavo. Original green and black cloth lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine of dust jacket only lightly sunned. An excellent copy. First edition, first printing. A sequel to Sanctuary (1931) and written as a play with prose parts preceding each act. The striking dust jacket design is by E. McKnight Kauffer. [Attributes: First Edition]